open access (OA)

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Open Access Week At University Of Kashmir

Allama Iqbal Library | Open Access Week | December 26, 2012

Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir organized a “one day seminar on Open Access Resources” on 18th December, 2012 to create greater understanding about the benefits of Open Access Resources in scholarly communication and to highlight different Open Access Resources in various subject fields. Read More »

Open Access Week Preview

Abby Clobridge | Information Today | October 15, 2012

Organizations around the world are gearing up to celebrate Open Access Week, officially held Oct. 22–28, 2012. For most institutions, Open Access Week is a way to increase the visibility of open access among scientists, researchers, librarians, university faculty members, and students. Read More »

Open Access Week Promotes Free Use Of Scholarly Research [Oklahoma University]

Arianna Pickard | The Oklahoma Daily | October 22, 2012

For the first time ever OU Libraries are participating in Open Access Week this week to promote the free use of information for scholarly research. Read More »

Open Access Week Showcases Research [Tufts University]

Stephanie Haven | The Tufts Daily | October 24, 2012

Associate Provost Mary Lee is hosting Tufts’ fourth annual Open Access Week from Oct. 22 through Oct. 28. Part of an international program to expand education and research audiences, the initiative at Tufts is an opportunity for professors to showcase the work they will publish in open access journals, or publications that anyone can access for free. Read More »

Open Access Week Will Feature Keynote Speech At Hamilton Library [University of Hawaiʻi]

Teri Skillman | University of Hawai‘i System | October 12, 2012

Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of Libraries at Kansas University, will give the keynote address for Open Access Week on Monday, October 22, 2012, from 11:30 a.m to 1 p.m. in the Hamilton Library Alcove. The topic of her talk will be, "Open Access: An Evolving Alternative or a Maturing Threat?” Read More »

Open Access Will Change The World, If Scientists Want It To

Terry Sunderland | The Conversation | October 4, 2012

While the Australian Research Council considers its policy on open-access publication and others within the scientific community call for the increased sharing of scientific data, the British are already a step ahead. Read More »

Open Access – Still to Have Its Google Moment

Byron Russell | Publishing Technology | January 15, 2016

As searches are centred on words – and not IP licence type, a problem is immediately created for providers of Open Access content. Ask any Open Access publisher, and they will tell you that one of their biggest challenges – if not the biggest – is discoverability. And here the most popular search engines are only partially helpful...If a researcher is specifically looking for Open Access content, as will increasingly be the case, they can of course go to a directory (Archie again!) such as DOAJ, but that is far from exhaustive and is not even fully searchable – it lists over 10,700 journal records, but only 6,800 are searchable at article level.

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Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?

Alice Meadows | The Scholarly Kitchen | November 1, 2012

There’s no doubt that open access (OA) is becoming more and more popular with authors...So what do authors themselves think about OA? Does it affect where they choose to publish? What are their reasons for publishing – or not publishing – in an OA journal? The results of a recent Wiley survey provide some interesting answers. Read More »

Open Access, Library And Publisher Competition, And The Evolution Of General Commerce

Andrew Odlyzko | Cornell University Library | February 5, 2013

Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignores what seems a much more important development in this market... Read More »

Open Access: 'We No Longer Need Expensive Publishing Networks'

Rupert Gatti | The Guardian | November 8, 2012

Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it's time for academics to take matters into their own hands Read More »

Open Access: A Response To Sean Guillory

Joshua Sanborn | Russian History Blog | January 15, 2013

My most recent blog post (on MOOCs) dealt with digital teaching. Less than a week after it appeared, Sean Guillory wrote an important piece on Sean’s Russia Blog regarding digital scholarship, to wit, the importance of open access for Russian historians. [...] Read More »

Open Access: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Bob O'Hara | The Guardian | October 26, 2012

The monetary incentive for author-pays journals is towards accepting as many papers as possible, which obiously conflicts with the reputational incentive of only accepting "good" papers Read More »

Open Access: Delivering On Its Potential

Jane Alfred | PLOS | October 24, 2012

This week, October 22-28, marks Open Access Week, a global event that brings various parties together to discuss, publicize and advocate for open access. On October 23, leading open access journal PLOS Biology publishes an editorial that aims to direct this year’s discussion towards the need to focus on the re-usability of, and not just access to, the research literature. Read More »

Open Access: Effective Measures To Put UK Research Online Under Threat?

Martin Paul Eve, Stephen Curry and Alma Swan | Guardian.com | July 28, 2014

The universities of the UK should not squander the opportunity to put in place an effective mechanism for making their published research freely available...